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" At home, I'm the silliest cornball who talks way too much and wants to be quiet and left alone at the same time. "

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" The racism, the sexism, I never let it be my problem. It's their problem. If I see a door comin' my way, I'm knockin' it down. And if I can't knock down the door, I'm sliding through the window. I'll never let it stop me from what I wanna do. "

" I started lying about my age when I was 18 to be older. When I turned 21, I started lying that I was 18. It's a weakness in me. "

" With 'Soul Train,' it was the first time I was on television. And I just couldn't believe it. "

" I am a positive person. I never think of the glass as half empty. I just keep pushing forward. "

" I was very willing to take on controversial roles that people didn't really want to look at. "

" I want to be in shape. "

" Van Gogh cut off his ear for his art. I'm not tryin' to cut off my ear. I'm not humiliating myself. "

" I didn't appreciate Brooklyn until I left it. "

" I don't call myself Latin, I call myself Puerto Rican. "

" I have great hair because I take a lot of vitamins. "

" I think I just have this need to be a storyteller. That's why I wasn't a great dancer - I couldn't articulate a story. I was a better choreographer. I have the need to to just express myself in that way. I can't explain it. "

" Certain people who care about me a lot have said 'You don't play the game, and if you don't play the game, you don't get picked for the team all the time. "

" In movies, you shoot out of sequence, so the issue of reality is really taken out of it. "

" A lot of women feel ashamed to be weak. "

" In Broadway, we do love jazz hands. "

" Don Cornelius did not want to see how I really danced - I was doing hip-hop, and it was foreign to people out in California. They only knew about popping and locking, so they were not keen on hip-hop dancing. "

" As far as a Latin explosion, I'm sorry, I'm the only Latino who's going to say it, but there is no Latin explosion. I'm sorry. Four or five top box office people do not make it an explosion, and it's disgusting to me that people will perceive it that way. "

" I was a ward of the state, initially, and then in the foster care system for quite some time, even though I did live part-time with my aunt in Brooklyn. "

" If we can't look at the good, bad and ugly of who we are, we are never going to progress as people - ever. "

" Face dance means you don't know what the hell the rest of your body was doing but your face is fierce. That's face dancing. "

" You have to believe in yourself. You need to have the audacity to be great. "

Believe In Yourself

" As an actor, you may do things that aren't politically correct. Unless you're an actor who only does things for political reasons. I believe if we don't do the good, bad, and the ugly, we're not going to progress. "

" I get bored in Hollywood. "

" I have a picture of all of us going to a club with my friends from 'Soul Train.' All the girls just going out to a nightclub, and we're all dressed like we were dressed on 'Soul Train.' It was the most surreal experience for me because I walk into the club with them, and people started screaming. 'Oh my God! It's the 'Soul Train' dancers.' "

" I see explicit covers on magazines, and they're getting even more explicit, and it's like, Are women being empowered, or is this just what sells magazines? Are they feeling pressured, or have they really come into themselves and are saying, 'I am woman, hear me roar?' "

" I did not try to conform to anybody's ideal of what a Latin celebrity or movie star should be. I took a lot of hits for it. "

" I have a great career, and no matter what I am doing, a big blockbuster movie... or my small documentary, David Letterman will call and say I would like you to sit on my couch. "

" Puerto Ricans are United States citizens, and I think that the issue of statehood or independence needs to be addressed and needs to be resolved. "

" I like the cold weather better than the hot weather. "

" Hollywood's racist. "